i have always had a terrible fear of baked beans, i'm not sure if it's the sauce as i also fear spaghetti hoops and ketchupi cannot watch anyone eat them. The smell makes me phsically sick and i have had panic attacks when chased with one on a fork by a very unhelpful husband . whom i make cook them for himself and wash up after .had to refuse to work till my keyboard was cleaned as he put one bean on the enter key!
I'm afraid of eating baked beans because once a school principal force-fedme some and I nearly puked.
I have a terrible fear of baked beans which I’ve had all my life, I don’t know what it is about them but I can’t even sit at the same table as someone who eats them. Even the very thought of them gives me a feeling like someone running their nails down a black board. When I was younger I was made to cook beans when I was camping in the scouts. I was ill for the whole day after that.
I know you have 'baked beans' already listed as a phobia but mine is totally different because baked beans as a group dont affect me. I can eat them fine, and can deal with them. However, if there is a solitary baked bean then i freak out. Not to mention that they look gross, there is something so contrived about a solitary baked bean....they look like they're really angry about being left alone and look like their plotting how to kill you for doing so. You just can't tell what they are thinking. My friends always put them on the table deliberatly, and i have to hide them under a napkin or something; i can't touch them. Once there was a baked bean on the table and i took my eyes off it for a second and a friend took it n put it in his cup and i got scared because i didnt know where the baked bean had gone. I can deal with two beans, even three, even a whole plate of them. I dont mind solitary peas, or sweetcorn or spagetti hoops, just solitary baked beans. And its even worse if theres a trickle of sauce behind them like they've moved...*shudders* Everyone seems to think this is irrational but i think its very reasonable...please tell me theres someone else out there who has this 'solitarybakedbeanaphobia'
From an early age I have hated BAKED BEANS!!! I thought I was on my own until reading an e-mail from another poor victim of these small ugly orange smelly beans! I too cannot tolerate the nasty smell of baked beans. I have no tolerance to their texture, and if I ever see them washed up in the sink (bald and naked!) I too feel like vomiting. I am unable to cook these and very rarely share the table with anyone that has the little nasties on their plate.....I feel so gald that I am not alone....
I have been searching the internet for many years to find someone with the same fear as me, to relate to them and talk to them and eventually overcome my fear. I feel I need to confide in someone about my irrational fear. I hope there is someone out there who has had the same experiences as me. I still do not know what it is about beans that make me have nervous breakdowns. When I was 10, I saw a bean on the floor and I had a panic attack. This particular bean was a broad bean, and it has haunted me for many years. Later, when I was 23, I saw a kidney bean and I collapsed to the floor. I have an irrational fear of beans for the sole reason that I think that when I am asleep they will make an army and come and kill me. Once, as a cruel joke, someone put a bean in my ear. I just lashed out at them and broke their arm... I am now 63 and working as a teacher in the UK. My pupils have found out about my fear and they make my life hell. I would really like to overcome my fear. Even talking about beans makes my skin crawl, I am feeling scared even now.
